/lit/ - Literature

>>1938933

You know what? You're write. Depends on if it's a long story, though.

Is putting no pauses between dialogue from different characters a good idea? As long as you hint who's talking, I imagine it would make reading it more fluent.

>>1938913

That's fucking beautiful, dude.

>>1938899

A lot of what makes a great writer is the way they write. I highly doubt it's full-on babby, though. Maybe a paragraph or two can help.

I have no idea what style I write in, though.

>>1938851

*for a rewrite

Sorry for the pause, playing TF2.
>>1938861

Wouldn't you rather the book be in YOUR style?

>>1938824
>>1938821
>>1938817

I wouldn't have posted in this much deatil because I don't trust /lit, but it sounds pretty cool.

I was ten chapters in my book, reread it, and decided to scrap the whole thing for

Action-comedy underground utopia (none of that Orwell bullshit) that starts physically augmenting new incomers, which kinda zombify and start to take over.

Hey /Lit/, I'm working on my 3rd scifi/fantasy book, and I'm thinking of using the 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse as the major theme. From each horsemen is going to be a magical item of legendary proportions that gives the wielder a power related to that incarnation. Death's Robe, War's Sword, and Conquest's Crown (check the Bible, Revelation 6:1-2, its conquest not pestilence) are easily assigned an attribute, but I'm having problems giving a power to Famine's Scales.

Any ideas or help with the scales would be greatly appreciated.

The Poetical Works of William Cowper (1861)

That's the oldest book I own, unless there's an even older one hiding in a box somewhere that I've forgotten about.

Country: Scotland
Nationality: Scottish
Sex: Male
Education: Dropped out of high school, currently doing nothing.

Top 5 Books:
No Longer Human
The Dice Man
Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories
Franz Kafka's The Complete Short Stories
The Divine Comedy

Top 5 Movies:
A Beautiful Mind
The Royal Tenenbaums
Ghost in the Shell
K-PAX
Monty Python's Life of Brian

Top 5 Albums:
Black Sabbath - Seventh Star
Deep Purple - Fireball
Kashiwa Daisuke - Program Music I
Kojima Mayumi - a musical biography 2001-2007
OGRE YOU ASSHOLE - Ogre You Asshole

Life Experience: I could write a rather long book which none of you would likely ever read, because nobody wants to sit and read about a guy complaining how shit his life was for a few hundred pages.

I never even made it as far as college, I ended up dropping out of high school halfway through my last year there for a variety of medical reasons.
With no qualifications, a NEET and a shut-in on top of that, reading books and watching anime/movies is all I do to pass the time.

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I've been meaning to put together something like this for a few days now, just for practice. Sorry if it's a handful of words over the limit, but I did try to cut it down a bit.

I'd say my favourite is probably Othello. It's hard to say what my least favourite is, though I do think Romeo & Juliet is one of Shakespeare's more overrated works.

I remember reading that back in high school. It's a pretty good book, and a very easy read. You'll probably be finished reading it before you even realize.

Fairly small, but this is just the shelf where I keep some of my favourite books.

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I suppose I'll just throw on a trip with the name I usually use. Small list I know, but there's not much I'm really after at the minute anyway.

>Are you attending/have you attended university? If so, where?
Afraid not, dropped out of college due to medical reasons and haven't gone back into education since.
>What do you want to do with your life?
No long-term plans in particular.
>What are you doing with your life right now?
Sitting at home reading books, listening to music and generally just living the life of a hermit.
>Favorite author of all time?
Hard to say. Franz Kafka probably, though I've always quite liked Osamu Dazai.

>>1415413
Fairly accurate guess, I'd say. Pretty much spot-on for the most part.

The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
No Longer Human
The Trial
The Dice Man
The Divine Comedy
The Poetical Works of William Cowper

>>1273002
Tried with three more excerpts of text. Twice more I got Dan Brown, then with the last one I got this.
I really don't know how I should feel about this.

I've never read any of Dan Brown's works. Should I feel complemented or insulted?

So, you say fear is what drives people. I say that I don't fear anything. I don't fear failure. I have no fear of the dark, or the sun, or even death. I fear none of these things.
You see, it isn't fear that keeps me going. It's indifference. The reason I'm still alive, the thing that keeps me going, is that I realize that it makes no big difference either way whether I live or die. I don't fear being alone, and I don't fear dying, because I don't particularly care about either of those things to begin with.

So I think the most powerful emotion in human decision has got to be indifference and neutrality, rather than fear. At least, that's how it is for me anyway.

Disorder | Rating
Paranoid: Very High
Schizoid: High
Schizotypal: Very High
Antisocial: High
Borderline: Very High
Histrionic: Moderate
Narcissistic: High
Avoidant: High
Dependent: Low
Obsessive-Compulsive: High

Considering I'm seeing a psychiatrist for several of these things already, it's not all that surprising.

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